Includes index (v. 10)

v. 1. Lineage -- Indiana -- Illinois in 1830 -- New Salem -- Lincoln in the Black Hawk War -- Surveyor and representative -- Legislative experience -- The Lincoln-Stone experience -- Collapse of "The system" -- Early law practice -- Marriage -- The Shields duel -- The campaign of 1844 -- Lincoln's campaign for Congress -- The Thirtieth Congress -- A fortunate escape -- The Circuit lawyer -- The balance of power -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- The drift of politics -- Lincoln and Trumbull -- The Border Ruffians -- The bogus laws -- The Topeka Constitution -- Civil War in Kansas --

v. 2. Jefferson Davis on rebellion -- The Conventions of 1856 -- Congressional Ruffianism -- The Dred Scott decision -- Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott -- The Lecompton Constitution -- The revolt of Douglas -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The Freeport Doctrine -- Lincoln's Ohio speeches -- Harper's Ferry -- Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech -- The Charleston Convention -- The Baltimore nominations -- The Chicago Convention -- Lincoln elected -- Beginnings of rebellion -- The Cabinet cabal -- From the ballot to the bullet -- Major Anderson -- The Charleston Forts -- The President's message -- The Charleston conspirators -- Mr. Buchanan's truce -- The retirement of Cass -- The Senate committee of thirteen -- The House committee of thirty-three -- The conspiracy proclaimed -- The forty muskets --

v. 3. South Carolina secession -- Personal liberty bills -- The surrender programme -- Fort Sumter -- A blundering commission -- The Cabinet régime -- The "Star of the West" -- Anderson's truce -- The military situation at Charleston -- The national defense -- The Sumter and Pickens truce -- The cotton "republics" -- The Montgomery Confederacy -- Failure of compromise -- The constitutional amendment -- The president-elect -- Stephens's speech -- Questions and answers -- Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln's secret night journey -- Lincoln's inauguration -- Lincoln?s Cabinet -- The question of Sumter -- The rebel game -- Virginia -- Premier or president --

v. 4. Fort Pickens reinforced -- The Sumter expedition -- The fall of Sumter -- The call to arms -- The national uprising -- Baltimore -- Washington in danger -- Rebellious Maryland -- Texas -- The Ohio Line -- Missouri -- Kentucky -- The Confederate Military League -- Civil War -- European neutrality -- McClellan and Grant -- Scott's Anaconda -- The advance -- West Virginia -- Bull Run -- Congress -- The contraband -- Frémont -- Military emancipation -- The Army of the Potomac --

v. 5. Hatters and Port Royal -- The "Trent" affair -- The Tennessee Line -- East Tennessee -- Halleck -- Lincoln directs Cooperation -- Grant and Thomas in Kentucky -- Cameron and Stanton -- Plans of campaign -- Manassas evacuated -- Fort Donelson -- Compensated abolishment -- "Monitor" and "Merrimac" -- Roanoke Island -- Farragut's victory -- New Orleans -- Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 -- The Shiloh Campaign -- Halleck's Corinth Campaign -- Yorktown -- From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks -- Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign -- The Seven Days' Battles --Harrison's landing --

v. 6. Pope's Virginia Campaign -- Mexico -- Diplomacy of 1862 -- Meditation declined -- Signs of the times -- Emancipation proposed and postponed -- Antietam -- Emancipation announced -- The removal of McClellan -- Fredericksburg -- Financial measures -- Seward and Chase -- Perryville and Murfreesboro -- West Virginia admitted -- Lincoln and the churches -- Military governors -- Colonization -- Missouri guerrillas and politics -- The Edict of freedom -- Negro soldiers -- Retaliation --

v. 7. The enrollment and the draft -- The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence -- Du Pont before Charleston -- Chancellorsville -- Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns -- The Campaign of the Bayous -- Grant's May battles in Mississippi -- The invasion of Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Port Hudson -- Vallandigham -- The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls -- Maximillian -- Fort Wagner -- Prisoners of war --

v. 8. Conspiracies in the North -- Habeas Corpus -- The march to Chattanooga -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga -- Burnside in Tennessee -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Missouri radicals and conservatives -- The line of the Rapidan -- Foreign relations in 1863 -- Olustee and the Red River -- The Pomeroy Circular -- Grant General-in-Chief -- The wilderness -- Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor -- Arkansas free -- Louisiana free -- Tennessee free -- Maryland free -- Missouri free --

v. 9. Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee -- The Cleveland Convention -- Lincoln renominated -- The resignation of Mr. Chase -- The Wade-Davis Manifesto -- The last days of the rebel navy -- Early's Campaign against Washington -- Horace Greeley's peace mission -- The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission -- Mobile Bay -- The Chicago surrender -- Atlanta -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Cedar Creek -- Cabinet changes -- Lincoln reelected -- Chase as Chief-Justice -- Petersburg -- Reconstruction -- The March to the Sea --

v. 10. Franklin and Nashville -- The Albemarle -- Fort Fisher and Wilmington -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Blair's Mexican project -- The Hampton Roads Conference -- The Second Inaugural -- Five Forks -- Appomattox -- The fall of the rebel capital -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Johnston's surrender -- The capture of Jefferson Davis -- The fourteenth of April -- The fate of the assassins -- The mourning pageant -- The end of rebellion -- Lincoln's fame

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Copy 1: Bound in marbled boards with leather spine and corners; frontispiece in each vol

Copy 2: Bound in cloth; frontispiece in each vol

Copy 1: Bookplate in each vol.: Arthur Dixon

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